Pascal, Janet B. <br/><br/>
What is the Panama Canal? / 
by Janet B. Pascal ; illustrated by Tim Foley. 
 - New York, New York :  Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA),  2014 
 - 108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations, maps ;  20 cm. 
 - What was ...? .
 - What was--? .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (page 108) 
<br/><br/>Hat is the Panama Canal? -- From the Atlantic to the Pacific -- A railroad built on corpses -- A canal? -- The French try their hand -- The United States steps in -- War! -- Killing mosquitoes -- A man with a plan -- Finishing the job -- Success! -- The Canal today. 
<br/><br/> "Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the worlds most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!"--Amazon.com. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780448478999 0448478994 9781480639959 1480639958 9780606356886 0606356886  $5.99 pap 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014017363 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Canals--Design and construction--History--Panama--Juvenile literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Panama Canal (Panama)--History--Juvenile literature.<br/>Canal Zone--History--Juvenile literature.<br/>Panama Canal (Panama)--History.<br/>Canal Zone--History.